About

Angela T. Carr hails from Glasgow, with roots in Donegal, and has lived and worked in Dublin since 1999.

An Honours graduate of the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow, Angela practised architecture in Ireland and the UK, to the level of Associate Director, taught at University College Dublin, and wrote about design for interiors magazines.

At the age of 6 or 7, with a passion for reading, Angela thought it likely she would become a writer someday; in her 30’s she realised, for this to happen, she would also have to start.

She took creative writing classes at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin, in 2007 — later, focusing on poetry under the tutelage of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill — and works primarily in short fiction and poetry.

Three times short-listed for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, in 2013, her debut collection won the Cork Literary Review Poetry Manuscript Competition, judged by Joseph Woods, poet and former Director of Poetry Ireland.

In 2014 she was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series, short-listed for the Listowel Writers' Week Single Poem Award and the Cúirt New Writing Showcase, a finalist in the Mslexia Poetry Competition, judged by Wendy Cope, a runner up in the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year and winner of the Allingham Poetry Prize.

Her debut collection, How to Lose Your Home & Save Your Life, was published by Bradshaw Books, November 2014.

In 2016, she was a winner in The London Magazine Poetry Competition, a runner-up in the Trócaire Poetry Ireland Poetry Competition, commended in the Hippocrates International Poetry Award, and shortlisted in the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Competition and Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award. She was also nominated for a Pushcart Prize and read at Dublin Castle for Poetry Ireland on Culture Night.

In 2017, she was joint runner up in the Trócaire Poetry Ireland Poetry Competition, and Highly Commended in The Bristol Poetry Prize and iYeats International Poetry Competition. Angela was awarded a residency at Cill Rialaig by Listowel Writers' Week and read at the Writers' Salon during the festival in June.

In 2018, she was commended in the Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Competition and shortlisted in the Doolin Writers' Week Poetry Competition.